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Zhuge Liang pondered but said nothing, Liu Jing said again: "Liu Jing was not sincere enough back then. When Mr. rude, he made Liu Jing miss the match. Today, Liu Jing asked Mr. to come out again with the greatest sincerity to help Liu Jing revive the great man. I hope Mr. agrees."

After a long time, Zhuge Liang sighed and said slowly: "My greatest ambition in this life is to revive the Han Dynasty and revive the Han Dynasty's country, so I will do my best to assist Uncle Liu. However, God's will is not with the Emperor's will, and it cannot be restored by Kong Ming's manpower. How can Kong Ming not know the sincerity of Your Highness, and how can he not be grateful? As long as Your Highness agrees to my two conditions, Kong Ming is willing to come out again and devote himself to assisting Your Highness."

Liu Jing was overjoyed, "Sir, please tell me clearly!"

"The first is to ask Your Highness to move Xiangyang County to Longzhong. The decline of Longzhong made Kong Ming extremely sad. I just hope that in my old age, when I return to Longzhong, I can hear the sound of reading in Longzhong."

Liu Jing nodded, "I also have a deep understanding. Back then, when I was in Longzhongwu, I could see the great scholars chatting and laughing everywhere. I saw the young gentry full of spirit, but today I saw the dilapidated Longzhong. It was really heartbreaking. I will arrange to establish Jingzhou Prefecture in Longzhong and build a spacious official road to connect Xiangyang City."

Zhuge Liang was overjoyed and stood up to salute, "Thank you, Your Highness for your thoughtful thought."

Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled, "Sir, please sit down, Liu Jing is willing to wash his ears and listen again."

Zhuge Liang sat down and said, "My second condition is that I hope that Your Highness can treat the emperor's uncle and his descendants. The emperor's uncle is old and has no ambitions anymore. Please ask Your Highness to take the Emperor's uncle's life safely and let his grandsons last their descendants."

Liu Jing pondered for a moment and said, "I might as well tell the sir that the reason why I appointed Liu Huangshu as a lieutenant was mainly to use his reputation to attract the Central Plains gentry, but I would not let him take real power anymore. I have learned from Ma Chao's lessons and at most let him be in charge of the ancestral temples and ritual sacrifices. As for his descendants, I will give them titles and wealth and let them be rich. Frankly speaking, Liu Chan really makes me have no worries."

Zhuge Liang understood what Liu Jing meant. Liu Chan's mediocre qualifications were indeed disappointing, but Liu Jing had already expressed his attitude to him and would not give up the bottom line of principles. Zhuge Liang did not expect Liu Bei to do anything now. As long as he could make Liu Bei old, he would no longer feel regretful.

But Liu Jing's sincerity moved him very much. Zhuge Liang stood up and knelt down and said, "What kind of virtue is Kong Ming? He actually asked His Highness to surrender. If His Highness does not bother, Kong Ming is willing to do whatever he wants."

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Liu Jing's trip to Longzhong did not disappoint him in the end. Zhuge Liang followed the trend, abandoned prejudice and past grudges, and joined Liu Jing's Restoration Group. Liu Jing then appointed Zhuge Liang as Shangshu Pushe, military advisor, and Pingzhangshi with the Secretary of the Central Committee, becoming the seventh prime minister of the Han Dynasty.

Half a month later, Zhuge Liangliang and his family arrived in Chang'an under the escort of a team of Han troops. For this reason, Liu Jing held a special official banquet in the Qilin Hall of Weiyang Palace to welcome Zhuge Liang and also held a celebration for the merger of Jiaozhou into the Han Dynasty.

It was already June and the weather was getting warmer. After the Han and Wei countries reached a free agreement on business, all checkpoints in the Wei State were removed, and the merchants' agility was gradually aroused. On the official roads of Pujin Pass and Tongguan, there were endless caravans, mules, donkeys, horses, carrying bags of all sizes and faces of merchants' excitement and expectation.

The fur, tea, wood, paper, medicinal materials, silk and various daily necessities of the Han Dynasty were continuously transported to Bingzhou and the Central Plains, while the bronzes, livestock, farm tools, salt, cloth, and good charcoal from the Wei State were transported to the Han Dynasty, but this was just an offspring list of goods, but in private, the pig iron, grain, weapons, armor and population of the Wei State were the merchants who made huge profits by some big merchants.

With mud and sand, both legal and illegal trade flowed in the increasingly prosperous commerce of the two countries. In order to obtain pig iron and food from the Han Dynasty, Liu Jing was for a more profound purpose.

The deputy city of Xianyang, Chang'an, is one of the deputy cities of Chang'an. The original Xianyang city had long been destroyed in the war, and the county town was later rebuilt.

With the rapid development of Guanzhong and Chang'an, Xianyang has a population of 70,000 to 80,000, mainly a place for craftsmen to live in. The city mainly focuses on handicrafts, including wood, iron, wine making, weaving, paper making, pottery making, etc. You can hear jingling and looming sounds everywhere in the city.

In addition to private handicraft workshops, some large official workshops are also located in Xianyang City, such as the Noben House of Military Arts Supervisors, Jiafang, Guanglu Temple winery and Shaofu Temple money minting workshop are all in this newly built sub-city.

On the morning of that day, King Liu Jing of Han came to Xianyang City with Jiang Wan, Minister of Revenue and Ma Liang, the new Shaofu Temple Minister, to the coin minting workshop. There are currently two types of money in the Han Dynasty. One is the original Jiangxia coins, but it is now renamed New Han coins, and the other is money, which is the Wuzhu coins made of gold. One coins can be used as a Han coins.

The red gold that was once popular in the Han Dynasty was banned from circulation. Official gold ingots can be used in large-scale trade, including ten or five or two ingots. Gold ingots are not legal currency, but just a treasure. However, the Han Dynasty also acquiesced to its circulation in the market.

In order to prohibit private copper coins, the Han State formulated the most severe punishment measures. Once private copper coins or gold ingots are seized, the whole family will be executed. This regulation is not limited to the Han State, but includes the entire world. Ten families have been publicly executed for building private money.

Because of its sufficient quality and high copper content, the copper coins in the Han Dynasty have long become the common currency in the world. Money is even more popular and it is difficult to see in the market. They are basically stored by ordinary people as hard currency during wars.

The coin minting workshop covers a large area of ​​more than a thousand acres, with more than 2,000 coin minting furnaces, and nearly 2,000 coin minting workers work here. However, the Han Dynasty's coin workshop is not only Chang'an, but also one in Chengdu and Wuchang. In addition, a workshop is also planned to be built in Jiangdong. The amount of coin minting in the Han Dynasty reaches 200 million yuan every year, and there are also 10 million coins and ten thousand gold ingots.

Despite this, it still cannot meet the increasing demand for money, and many places still barter.

Especially after the Nanyang conflict between the two armies of Han and Cao, Cao Cao was forced to agree to the conditions for free trade of merchants proposed by Liu Jing to calm the incident. It is obvious that the trade of merchants on both sides will be more prosperous. In this case, the importance of currency is obvious.

The most urgent task is to increase the amount of minting, which is also a very urgent requirement at present. In just half a month, Liu Jing has visited the coin minting workshop in Xianyang for the second time.

Everyone came to the raw material warehouse. The raw material warehouse was made of huge stones and together with the money storage warehouse, there were a total of twenty huge warehouses, which were closely guarded by soldiers. The soldiers pushed open an iron door. The young mansion chief Zhang Jin invited everyone to enter the warehouse. Thousands of copper ingots were neatly placed in the warehouse, each of which weighed more than kilograms.

Zhang Jin introduced to Liu Jing and others: "Your Highness, after the last inspection, you transported a large number of copper and gold ingots from Jingzhou. At present, our raw materials are sufficient. All craftsmen are divided into classes and minted coins and gold ingots day and night, striving to achieve 400 million yuan in this year and reach 10 million yuan in gold ingots."

At present, the raw materials such as copper and gold in the Han Dynasty mainly come from the four counties, Jiangxia County, Yuzhang County, Danyang County and Jianwei County. The Han Dynasty has more than a dozen mines, mining, smelting, and transportation in these four counties, and has formed a complete system, and its scale has continued to expand, effectively supporting the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Jing nodded and turned around and said, "Have you finished what I ordered last time?"

"It has been completed, please do it!"

Zhang Jin invited everyone into a spacious house. It turned out to be a warehouse, but it has now been converted into a showroom, displaying all the coins in the world and coins minted by the Han Dynasty over the years.

Zhang Jin asked everyone to sit down, and he took a wooden box, which contained coins from the Han and Wei countries, and were all cut and cut.

"Please see your Highness!"

Zhang Jin put two Wuzhu coins in front of Liu Jing, "One is our new Han coins, and the other is Wei coins."

Liu Jing turned around and asked Ma Liang, "Is this the latest Wei Qian?"

Ma Liang nodded, "According to your instructions, we will take samples from Yedu every month to conduct special research. This Wei coin was the newly cast copper coins of Wei State last month, and the formula has changed."

Liu Jing held two copper coins in his hand and looked carefully. The cross-sections of the two copper coins were clear yellow, and the difference was not much, which shows that Wei State also adopted the copper content ratio of Han State, increasing the copper content to 90%.

Liu Jing nodded and smiled, "It seems that Cao Pi also realized that there was a problem with their money, so he had to use the same copper content as ours."

Jiang Wan said on the side: "Weichen sent someone to Yedu to investigate. The former Han coins and Dong Zhuo coins have disappeared. Since we prohibit the circulation of red gold, Yedu gradually disappeared. The market is mainly our new Han coins and Wei coins. Our new Han coins are the main ones, and Wei coins account for only 20% of them. One new Han coins can be exchanged for Wei coins on the black market, but the official still exchanged one, which caused a serious run. Now the official has stopped exchanged."

Liu Jing asked again: "Where is the money and gold ingots?"

"Report to Your Highness, the Wei Kingdom followed our example of minting money and ingots in the past year, but it stopped last year. We all estimated that their gold inventory was insufficient. At the beginning of last year, the Wei Kingdom's grain price soared, and Wei Kingdom used gold to buy a lot of food from us."

Allowing the Wei State to use gold to purchase food was an order issued by Liu Jin. In any case, Liu Jing wanted to take the minting money into his own hands. At this time, Zhang Jin said with some concern: "Now the copper content of Wei coins is the same as ours. Will it impact the status of the new Han coins in Wei State?"

Ma Liang shook his head and smiled, "The frozen ruler is not a day's cold. The Wei State has cast a large amount of bad money, and its reputation has been destroyed. It cannot be restored in a day or two. What should I do with the previous Wei coins? So even if they increase the copper content, they cannot change the situation of the good and inferior situation of the Han Dynasty."

Liu Jing added: "Now the Han Dynasty no longer recognizes Wei coins. We have set up an official caravan and invested the minted money and gold ingots into Wei State to exchange for a large amount of supplies, which will inevitably cause a shortage of Wei State. The Wei State will sooner or later notice this serious problem. The Wei State either stops trade or can only follow us to mint new Han coins and buy our supplies in turn. I believe they will choose the latter. If this continues, the Wei State will soon disappear and our coins will unify the world."

At this time, Zhang Jin handed another piece of money to Liu Jing, "Your Highness, please see this piece of money!"
Chapter completed!